That's a very cool ebike, I wonder how much kits would cost if it ever got to scale?
Probably an issue is that for £1k you can find an old car at local garage that is taxed and will get you a yr's motoring in the dry with heat, range, passengers and boot. I do very little mileage in my current car (£950 Jetta bargain of the yr), the odd weekend run and a jaunt to Blackpool with kids few weeks back, but mainly short local school runs. We takes bikes whenever we can but that's not a proposition for Jan weather.
Point being you get a lot more for your money with an older car...until that changes and ebike manufacturers step up then second hand cars lots will win until they eventually run out of stock due to regulation but that's easily another decade.
My list of cars owned, probably not that many considering been driving since 17 and am now early 50s:
- Mk1 Golf, white with Italian 2-way blinds in back, white wheel trims and lovely soft seat covers (it was my mother's..she was a boy racer...)
- Rover Fastback, Gold, this thing was a tank, twice I slid in to the back of other cars at roundabouts at low speed and twice the other drivers couldn't wait to get away fast enough....lots of uninsured drivers about in these days
- BMW 323i, dark blue, great car, had it for over a decade before had to scrap it dues to cost to get it through MOT.
- Merc S Class extended wheelbase, silver, only lasted 10months before it spun out on Expressway and did at 270 and rear clipped kerb, it would drive but was write-off.
- Merc E-Class 350 Triptronic, best car I ever owned, had paddles on wheel for gear shifting, it ended up in the barriers at traffic lights outside Baird Police Station on 27th Dec that year after hitting black ice. Front left wheel fell off...write-off.
Given up on nice cars by now.
- Vauxhall Vectra, black, hated this car but it only cost £900 and I got 18months out of it before the exhaust fell of in bits, first muffler so I was a boy racer then the rest of it..scrapped.
- Citroen Xara, silver, £850, lasted a yr, bit longer maybe, then timing belt blew on Expressway, had to abandon it, it got towed away by cops but I never heard anything more back about it. I think I might have left a set of golf clubs in boot though...
- VW Jetta TDI , blue, current motor, cannot fault it for £950 (was owned by couple from Stornaway so it had 160k miles on clock with a full service history). Local garage guy at bottom of street said I won a watch with that car...should be good for another 100k...
